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Apple has announced its long awaited bezel-less, premium 10th anniversary smartphone, iPhone X at its September event. Priced at $999 for the 64GB model and $1,149 for 256GB, iPhone X is Apple’s most expensive iPhone yet.

The iPhone X has a brand-new design and is the first iPhone to feature an OLED display. The iPhone X has a 5.8-inch screen with minimal bezels, giving it a physical size close to the iPhone 8, with a screen size larger than the iPhone 8 Plus.

The iPhone X features glass on the front and back with a stainless steel body that seamlessly meet at the device’s curved edges. Other flagship features include the devices new 3D sensors that bring Face ID as a replacement to Touch ID and wireless charging support.

The iPhone X along with the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus feature the A11 Bionic processor. The all new chip has four efficiency cores that are up to 70% faster than A10 Fusion and two performance cores that are up to 25% faster. The new models also have an Apple designed GPU that offers up to 30% better performance than the A10 chip.

iPhone X will be available for preorder on October 27 and will launch on November 3.

Hands-on: Google Pixel 2 XL versus iPhone X multitasking [Video]

Avatar for Jeff Benjamin May 17 2018 - 2:01 pm PT
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I recently got my hands on a Google Pixel 2 XL, primarily because I’ve long planned on migrating my business line from Google Voice to a standalone phone, and figured an Android phone would give me a good opportunity to catch me up on the platform’s features. As you may have heard, the latest developer beta for Android was just released, called Android P, and Google makes it super easy to enroll and install the beta on a select few Android phones.

One of the things that I found interesting about Android P is its updated multitasking interface. The interface works similarly to the iPhone X, in that swipe gestures can be used to invoke the app switcher. Although Android P is still in beta, I wanted to showcase how some of the Pixel XL 2’s multitasking features stack up against the iPhone X. Watch our hands-on video walkthrough for more.
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Spigen announces special edition iPhone X cases echoing iMac G3 and original iPhone design

Avatar for Benjamin Mayo May 14 2018 - 12:45 pm PT
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Spigen has launched a series of new cases on Indiegogo for the iPhone X. As a celebration of Spigen’s tenth birthday, these cases are inspired by the design cues of the original iMac with its translucent windows as well as a throwback to the original iPhone’s aluminium metal and plastic design.

Only for iPhone X, the iMac variants come in five different color choices including the traditional bondi blue, red, grey, silver and green. The backs of the cases include raised outline of the iPhone X’s internals. They also have some cute references to the iconic ‘hello’ message on the insides.


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Comment: Why I don’t believe the iPhone SE 2 renders but wish I did

Avatar for Ben Lovejoy May 11 2018 - 5:56 am PT
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Case maker Olixar created quite a stir yesterday when it started selling screen covers based on what it believes is the design of the next-generation iPhone SE.

It illustrated this with a render that shows a classic iPhone SE casing updated with a full-screen display and iPhone X style notch. It’s not the first time we’ve seen the concept, of course, but Olixar was sufficiently convinced to throw some money at it …


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iPhone X remained ‘comfortably’ the most popular smartphone in Europe in Q1

Avatar for Ben Lovejoy May 9 2018 - 3:57 am PT
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The iPhone X remained ‘comfortably’ the best-shipping smartphone in Europe during Q1, according to the latest data from Canalys. It follows Strategy Analytics data showing that the same was true worldwide.

Canalys suggests that it’s a particularly impressive achievement at a time when ‘smartphone fatigue’ is seeing people resist the latest flagship models …


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Apple enforcing iOS 11 support, iPhone X resolution in app updates

Avatar for Peter Cao May 7 2018 - 11:36 am PT
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It was reported back in February that all new apps submitted to the App Store had to support the iPhone X’s Super Retina display starting last month. Today, Apple has informed developers that all new apps, whether updates or new submissions, will be required to support the iPhone X’s screen resolution, beginning in July of 2018.


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iPhone X the world’s best-selling smartphone in Q1 – Strategy Analytics

Avatar for Ben Lovejoy May 4 2018 - 7:33 am PT
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Tim Cook touted the success of the iPhone X during this week’s Q2 earnings call, with a couple of notable facts. First, he said, the iPhone X had been the best-selling iPhone every single week of Q1. Second, it was the best-selling smartphone in China.

But today the iPhone X has an even greater claim to fame: it was the top-selling smartphone not just in China, but worldwide …


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Spanish People magazine publishes ’50 most beautiful people of 2018′, all photos shot with iPhone X

Avatar for Benjamin Mayo May 4 2018 - 7:29 am PT
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The Spanish version of People magazine is this month featuring the ’50 most beautiful people’ of 2018, featuring celebrities including Demo Lovato, J.Balvin, Amara La Negra, and other figures. Each person gets a bio and a portrait. For the first time, all the photos were shot — including the cover photo — with an iPhone X.


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IDC figures put iPhone growth into perspective as smartphone shipments fall 2.9%

Avatar for Ben Lovejoy May 3 2018 - 5:40 am PT
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The good news announced in Apple’s Q2 earnings report may have focused more on revenue and profit than growing iPhone sales, but the company did still achieve year-on-year growth of 3%.

The latest numbers from IDC on global smartphone shipments put that achievement into perspective, drawing comparisons with Samsung and others …


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Opinion: Earnings show that the iPhone X was a huge success, even if Apple hoped for more

Avatar for Ben Lovejoy May 2 2018 - 6:37 am PT
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Prior to yesterday’s AAPL earnings report, all the speculation about iPhone sales was doom-and-gloom. Although analysts were predicting that Apple would hit its guidance – and it would have been a dramatic shock if it had failed to do so – anyone reading the reports could be forgiven for thinking iPhone sales were tanking.

In particular, it appeared that the iPhone X was very far from the success that analysts had earlier predicted.

The early talk was of a new ‘supercycle’ – that the radical new design of the iPhone X would lead to the same kind of dramatic boost to sales we saw when Apple made its move into larger-screened phones with the iPhone 6. But that idea didn’t last long, as subsequent reports suggesting that Apple was now halving its sales expectations for the quarter …


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Dual camera company backed by Samsung and Foxconn extends patent infringement claim to iPhone X

Avatar for Ben Lovejoy May 1 2018 - 5:15 am PT
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Corephotonics, a company with patents for smartphone dual-camera technology, has filed a second patent infringement claim against Apple.

The company first sued Apple in November of last year. At that point, the claimed infringement related to the dual-lens system used in the iPhone 7 Plus, while the latest case targets the iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X also …


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Expectations of soft iPhone sales put increased focus on AAPL’s $50B target for Services

Avatar for Ben Lovejoy May 1 2018 - 4:11 am PT
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The consensus prediction for Apple’s Q2 earnings call later today is that the company will reveal iPhone sales some way below earlier analyst expectations. While analysts expect Apple to hit guidance, which would see revenue almost $8B up year-on-year, talk of the iPhone X driving an iPhone 6-like ‘supercycle’ has disappeared.

Assuming that turns out to be the case, it will put increased focus on the company’s revenue from Services …


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